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Teaser Tuesday: A Version of the Truth

Phyl — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:06:30 +0000

A young woman lies to get an office job at a university, and as she's exposed to the knowledge and mind set there, she begins to change and grow. [...]

Teaser Tuesday – The Anatomy of Deception

Phyl — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:34:52 +0000

The book is about a mystery that needs solving by a Philadelphia doctor in 1889. There's a bit of a Sherlock Holmes air to it, and Goldstone really captures the attitudes of the time as well. [...]

Teaser Tuesday – Six Suspects

Phyl — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:46:27 +0000

And once again it’s Tuesday, and time for the Tuesday Teaser, hosted by MizB at the Should Be Reading blog.

Most people probably know the drill by now, but just in case: you take the book you’re currently reading, find a random page, and post two sentences from the page, as “teasers” to interest people [...]

Teaser Tuesday – Merlin’s Ring

Phyl — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:50:38 +0000

Good day! Time for another Tuesday Teaser. This is the famous exercise in which we take our current read, open to a random page, and pull two sentences from it, to use as teasers. This will help our readers decide if the book sounds interesting enough to read themselves. But we don’t take sentences that [...]

Teaser Tuesday – Rain Storm

Phyl — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:12:10 +0000

Hello, and happy Tuesday! I haven’t managed to fit in a Tuesday Teaser for a while, but decided to try again today. I am continuing my gradual progression through Barry Eisler’s thrillers about the assassin, John Rain, and today’s teaser is from Rain Storm, the third book in that series.

As you already likely know, [...]

Teaser Tuesday – Limitations, by Scott Turow

Phyl — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:17:51 +0000

I've read one Turow book in the past, but don't remember which one. So when I saw this one on the shelf, I grabbed it as my personal introduction. [...]

Teaser Tuesday – For Matrimonial Purposes

Phyl — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:19:16 +0000

I seem, lately to be encountering books about young women from the Indian culture, and their matrimonial prospects. Must be something in the air. [...]

Teaser Tuesday: The River by Tricia Wastvedt

Phyl — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:07:36 +0000

I'm not always fond of a style that skips back and forth quite so much between time periods and characters. But in this case, it works really well, and creates a lot of tension. [...]

Teaser Tuesday – Queen’s Play by Dorothy Dunnett

Phyl — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:04:40 +0000

Those Dunnett fans who have already read this book will know the significance of one of the things mentioned in these sentences, but I'm not telling! [...]

Teaser Tuesday – The Book of Negroes

Phyl — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:49:55 +0000

Here we are again! Today is Teaser Tuesday, hosted by MizB over at the Should Be Reading blog. Here is the protocol:

Grab your current read and open to a random page Take two sentences from that page to post as a teaser NO SPOILERS!

I’m still reading the book from last week (I’ll [...]